war is hell and it can be one hell of a
scary place to be thanks to a wide
assortment of weapons and munitions
there's a plethora of terrifying ways to
meet your maker but what are some of the
scariest war sounds ever recorded stay
tuned and find out 500 pound bomb the
500 pound bomb has become a workhorse
munition for NATO forces in the Middle
East but it's a weight class of weapon
used by militaries all over the world
these bombs are typically used against
stationary targets such as buildings or
defense positions and rely on sheer
blast force to rip apart anything
unlucky enough to be its target in this
recording we can hear two 500-pound
bombs being dropped on Syrian civilian
buildings by Russian jets supporting the
Assad regime
depending on who's delivering a
500-pound bomb to your location your
only warning might be the sound of a jet
engine roaring as it flies in low and
slow to ensure its accuracy but if
you're a Middle Eastern terrorist on the
wrong end of a NATO plane you'll
probably hear nothing at all but the
faint sound of a high-flying jet
somewhere in the sky above while
unsophisticated militaries typically use
these weapons as stone gravity bombs
NATO forces have equipped their
munitions with laser-guided seekers and
GPS technology ensuring pinpoint
accuracy even when dropped from tens of
thousands of feet in the air a 10
warthog attack run once more just how
scary this sound is largely depends on
whose side of the fight you're on if
you're on the US side of the fight and
you're being engaged by enemy infantry
or tanks there's no sweeter sound in the
world if you're the bad guys load it up
in even the toughest modern tanks though
then there's no more terrifying sound in
the world than that of a US Air Force
a-10 warthog on an attack run
the infamous Bern sound of an a-10 s
main cannon firing is known throughout
the world and the airplane is basically
built around the giant 30 by 173
millimeter gau-8 avenger autocannon this
cannon is not only one of the most
powerful ever built into an aircraft but
it's in fact so powerful that the plane
cannot fire its main weapon and maintain
a level flight it must attack at a
downward angle or else risk stalling out
due to the massive recoil from the
cannon firing at 3,900 rounds per minute
spitting out depleted uranium armor
piercing shells there's literally
nothing on planet earth that'll protect
you from a lurking a-10 if it decides
you're its next meal world war 2 v1 bomb
nowadays flying bombs are pretty much
par for the course but for the residents
of southern England in world war ii
flying bombs were a new and very
terrifying reality these buzz bombs as
they became known had an extraordinary
range of hundreds of miles and were
fired in great numbers in a bid to crush
England into submission
if you were a British civilian thinking
you were safe miles from the front lines
the v1 was there too
mind you that in this new century of
warfare nowhere was safe
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once were fired in their thousands in a
bid to crush England's resolve to fight
sometimes as many as 100 in one day
thankfully the weapons were only crudely
guided and while they could hit a
general zip code thanks to a crude
guidance system they carried a thousand
kilograms of explosives making them
devastating no matter where they landed
originally the v1 was meant to have a
much more sophisticated guidance system
using radio waves which would have
allowed it to be used as a precision
weapon against allied military targets
thankfully Hitler who was in a blind
rage over the Allied invasion z' at the
time decided against this idea and
planned to use it only as a terror
weapon against civilian targets
if Nazi Germany had indeed used nearly
10,000 v1 s as precision guided
munitions World War two might have had a
completely different ending Pentagon's
ghost laser back in the Vietnam War the
United States military developed a
terrifying tape of a ghostly sound meant
to scare the pants off the superstitious
Viet Cong and North Vietnamese the tape
was played from speakers mounted on
helicopters and boats and proved to be
fairly effective today though the
Pentagon is kicking things up to 11 with
a laser meant to create voices and other
terrifying sound effects out of thin air
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incredibly what you heard was literally
created out of thin air without the aid
of a single speaker the Department of
Defense is calling it the laser induced
plasma effect and it's about as
futuristic as you can currently get a
non-lethal weapon meant to terrify and
confuse enemy soldiers the weapon works
by shooting a burst of light that
creates a ball of plasma which is then
hit by a second laser the second lasers
interactions with the plasma are what
caused the ghostly walkie-talkie noises
like you heard the scientists working
for the US military are very confident
that soon they'll be able to make it
actually talk intelligibly Vietnam ghost
tapes in our previous entry we mentioned
the infamous Vietnam ghost tapes and
when you take a listen we're sure you'll
agree that this is amongst one of the
most terrifying things you could hear in
war sure safe in your room it probably
doesn't sound that scary
certainly not scarier than a Halloween
sound effects tape I'll be it with
poorer sound effects but imagine that
it's 1965 and Europe hasn't farmer
turned soldier lurking in the
pitch-black woods of Vietnam when you
suddenly hear these strange sounds
coming from a jungle around you the
infamous ghost tapes were meant to play
on the superstitious fears of Vietnamese
soldiers they featured the sounds of
traditional funeral music along with
long haunting wails and even entire
speeches from a disembodied voice in
Vietnamese this voice would claim to be
a departed soul calling out to its
comrades and arms warning them to return
home as the Vietnamese believed that a
dead body not given a proper burial
would doom the soul to wander in Hell
forever the ghostly voice made a
compelling argument to simply surrender
or flee the battlefield in the end the
tapes were met with mixed success at
times netting a handful of enemy
combatants who willfully surrendered and
at other times being so successful that
US forces were warned not to use them
near South Vietnamese soldiers real
Vietnam ambush Vietnam is one of
America's bloodiest Wars and unlike most
other wars the US had been involved in
it was mostly fought on the ground at
the platoon
the war featured some of the most
vicious infantry combat in modern
history and in the following recording
we hear just how terrifying it could be
to fight in the deep jungles of the
war-torn country in this clip we can
hear two different recon squads caught
in a pincer ambush as an unidentified
soldier calls out fire from both east
and west over most of the recording you
can hear the sound of an m60 desperately
firing into the thick jungle along with
the sound of returned fire from NVA
weapons this is the real life-and-death
drama of soldiers caught in a fight to
the death
Afghanistan firefight if Vietnam was a
war mostly font on the platoon and
company level then Afghanistan was
definitely a war fought mostly on the
squad level despite overwhelming
technological superiority NATO troops
often found themselves fighting door to
door or ravine to ravine in the mountain
deserts of the country in this clip we
find out what it was like to be in the
middle of a firefight in Afghanistan and
what it's like to take a round directly
to the chest
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in the audio you can hear the sound of
gunfire all around the soldier who was
wearing a helmet came at the time more
terrifyingly you can hear the distinct
sounds of rounds impacting all around
the soldier until you get to the
distinctive thump of a round striking
center mass thankfully the soldier in
question was wearing body armor and
despite being hidden incredible four
times suffered nothing more than light
bruising the same can't be said at the
Taliban fighters on the other end of the
heavy American weapons news crew
survives booby trap
war is not just dangerous for soldiers
but with the advent of modern media war
has become dangerous to the reporters
whose job it is to bring us news from
the frontlines never is the job more
dangerous though than when fighting a
war against a terrorist foe such as Isis
who does not respect the rules of war
north a distinction between civilian and
military targets
what
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incredibly this Sky News crew was only
feet away from a booby trap that
completely obliterated a parked American
Humvee the bomb had actually been
monitored in real time by an Isis drone
flying over the area with footage of the
attack uploaded to their social media
Jericho's trumpets during World War two
there were a few more effective close
ground support platforms than the
infamous German Stuka dive-bomber these
aircraft absolutely decimated allied
tank and infantry forces throughout the
war and were known as one of the most
precise close ground support aircraft of
the entire Second World War their pilots
were amongst some of the Luftwaffe
smoker Aegis riding in their aircraft in
steep dives that gave them only seconds
to pull up or become a smear on the
ground below however what made these
aircraft even more terrifying was their
distinctive wail known as the Stuka
siren
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these sirens were specially designed and
attached the inner wings of the Stuka
dive-bombers named after the biblical
trumpets which down the walls of Jericho
in the Old Testament the Jericho
trumpets took a serious toll on the
nerves of Allied soldiers who often
found themselves the target of Stuka
attacks it wouldn't be until the balance
of power in the air shifted that the
infamous German Stukas would be shot on
the sky by Allied fighters and the Snuka
sirens were at last silenced nuclear
explosion
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what you just heard is one of the only
surviving pieces of audio from an actual
nuclear explosion recorded from a
distance of several miles away from the
explosion this is a sound that only a
few thousand people in the world have
ever heard before and the last thing
that many Japanese living in Hiroshima
and Nagasaki ever heard want to find out
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